Inspirational story - True Wise

 

Once upon a time some disciples asked their Spiritual master, 'Who is the real wise?

 The Spiritual Master came out of his hermitage with his disciples. Talking to the disciples on the way, he said, 'Study of the open conditions of the world can give as much proper knowledge of the situation as it cannot be had from books and discourses of Saint's.

 Then they stopped at the door of an old lady. The old lady was sweeping her door.

 Some children were playing around the old lady, making noise. Sometimes a child would ask for water, she would give him water and sometimes she would scold some naughty children who used to get angry, tickle them and make them laugh. The children would then get involved in the game.

Spiritual master and his disciples saw this scene for some time. When they headed home, all the children ran away. The old lady was busy in her work.

 Spiritual master asked the old lady, ' Mother! Have you ever seen God?' Hearing this, the old woman first smiled and said, 'Yes son! That's what he was playing just now, he ran away on seeing you guys. That pointless noise, children's laughter and sulking, then my persuasion, that was God, who went away as soon as you came.

 Spiritual master returned from there with his disciples.

 After reaching the hermitage, he said to the disciples, 'As a selfless and selfless scholar, that old woman is a true scholar, who does not see the relation of knowledge to any selfishness, profit or her own interest, she experiences liberation by keeping it free.'

 The disciples got the answer to their question.